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king and bishop holding a child as in the ceremony of baptism. This deed, Morant says, was noticed in the "Collect. Hie. St. George militis, fol. 158." The original deed and seal may therefore have been in existence about a century ago. Is anything known of it now 1 Inquiry has been made at the British Museum, Bodleian Library, and other public offices to no purpose. It is interesting as throwing light upon the origin of the name of Filliol (Norman Filleul), a name once well known in Essex and Dorset, and still common in Normandy and Jersey. Any information throwing light upon this story of Morant's will be thankfully received. S. E. V. FILLEUL.

LAWS OF CKICKET. I have in my possession a volume of the New Universal Magazine for 1752 (vol. ii.) which contains the laws of cricket, "as settled by the Cricket-Club in 1744, and play'd at the Artillery-Ground, London." I shall be glad to know if any of your readers have seen a copy of the laws of cricket earlier than this. PHILIP NORMAN.

GRAMMATICAL USAGE. In Bunyan's ' Pil- grim's Progress ' we read, " They all went on till they came to the foot of the Hill Difficulty, at the bottom of which was a spring. There was also in the same place two other ways." And again, a little further- down the page the phrase occurs, "There was two other ways to go." Is this use of "there was" in connexion with a plural substantive to be regarded as a mark of Bunyan's faulty education, or was it an accepted form in his day and earlier? The German "es gibt" may be followed by a plural substantive.

P. W. G. M.

CASTS OF ANCIENT SEALS. I shall be glad of the name and address of any one who makes and sells casts of ancient seals.

S. S.

1 EASIER THAN LYING.' A short story with this title, or a similar, appeared in, I believe, an American magazine vsome years ago. When and where? W. T. S.

REARDON : MCCARTHY. In Forsyth's ' His- tory of the Captivity of Napoleon ' mentior is made (vol. iii.) of Lieut. Reardon and Charle; McCarthy, lieutenant 66th Regiment. Genea- logical or biographical information regarding Reardon and McCarthy is required. Perhaps some of your correspondents could kindly supply it. SIGMA TAU.

" BATSUEINS." What is the exact meaning of batsueins in the following extract fron

)omesday Book 1 Does it imply any know- edge of seamanship, or does the whole passage imply mean that the burgesses of Warwick lad to provide the king with four men to act as servants on board ship when he went sea against his enemies 1

" Consuetude Waruuic fuit. ut eunte rege p' ,erra' in expeditione' : dece 3 burgenses de Waruuic >' pm'ibiz aliis irent. Qui monitus non ibat : c. iolid' regi eni'dabat. Si u' p' mare c'tra hostes suos bat rex : vel. IIII. batsueins vel. IIII. lib' denarioz ii mittebant."

BENJ. WALKER.

Langstone, Erdingtou. A.-S. BdteW&gen, " Bat-swain "=sailor (Halliwell).]

GHOSTS AND SUICIDES. A cottage woman was speaking to me the other day about the terrible losses of our troops in South Africa. She said : " Eh, but I shouldn't like to live over there when it's all done. The place '11 e fair wick wi' ghosts." When I expressed my doubts as to their being such things as ghosts, she said she knew there were, for she ' had seen a many." Pressed further, she said that, at any rate, people who come to a violent end, and especially those who commit suicide, certainly " walk " till " their time comes." By this she meant until such time as they would have died in the course of nature. This limit- ing of a ghost's time to " walk " is new to me. Is it held at all generally ? C. C. B.

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SIR JOHN SAVAGE AND ANDREW ADAMES. The names of Sir John Savage, Knt., and Andrew Adames are found in a document of 1575, with other landowners of a parish or tithing of Bradley, in co. Hants. The name of Bradley is found in several parts of North Hants, and there is a parish of this name with which the above landowners are sup- posed to be connected. Savage, as a knightly family, was long connected with Cliddesden, Adams with Nutley, both in N. Hants; but information is sought about the two persons named above as associated with Bradley parish or one of the other Bradley tithings.

VICAR.

FLEMISH WEAVERS. Can any of your readers kindly refer me to any records containing the names of Flemish weavers who visited and settled in England in the reign of Edward III.? CRABB BOUCHER.

SHAKESPEARE AND CICERO. " Lord Say hath gelded the commonwealth, and made it an eunuch" ( 1 2 Henry VI.,' IV. ii. 174). Although several annotated editions of the above play to which I have referred have no note on the subject, it can hardly have